Microtonal Guitar (Fixed Fret) - Tolgahan Çoğulu

Microtonal Guitar - Tolgahan Çoğulu · 13.2M views · 2014-03-22 · 4:16

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Overview

Tolgahan Cogulu demonstrates a fixed-fret microtonal guitar, playing music that uses notes between the usual twelve semitones. The channel is dedicated to his microtonal guitar designs.

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Linked in music theory and tuning threads as a listenable example of microtonal guitar that sounds good.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2015–2022

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Music theory, synthesis & production Music performance & songs

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kortex · 2022-08 · Recommendation
Anyone who is interested in going down the beyond-12-equal-temperment rabbit hole: - xeharmonic wiki: [LINK] - xenharmonic playlist: [LINK] - Tolgahan Çoğulu and his awesome microtonal guitar creations: [VIDEO] Some bands with more "approachable" sounds (vs the xenharmonic playlist, which gets spicy) known for microtonal work: Psychedelic rock: - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (namely albums Flying Microtonal Banana, KG, LW) - Altin Gün - Gaye su Akyol Classic blues rock (Led Zeppelin and the like, but also OG blues like Robert Johnson, that's another rabbit hole) also has a surprising amount of off-12Tet notes, because of the blues scale In the electronic realm, Aphex Twin does some interesting stuff with microtones - Jacob Collier - musical prodigy, mostly a capella/vocal arranging, but is a genre polymath, does some incredible stuff with just harmony If anyone has anything to add, please do! I can't get enough of this stuff
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ZenoArrow · 2016-08 · Recommendation
> "But don't hold your breath for oriental tuning. I don't see any reason why that would ever catch on. ick." I can understand your personal preference. That said, I think the ear is more adaptable than you might think, I've found myself enjoying music that employs microtones. To give one example, here's some Turkish music played on microtonal guitar: [VIDEO]
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ZenoArrow · 2015-05 · Recommendation
That sounds like a cool instrument, would be interested in hearing what it sounds like, do you have any clips of you playing it? I like the idea of a guitar that can easily reach lower registers. Whilst 7-string (and in Charlie Hunter's case, 8-string) guitars are possibly more versatile, I'm quite partial to baritone guitars. This sounds beautiful to me: [LINK] Talking of unconventional instruments, you may be interested in hearing these microtonal guitars, I think the second one in particular sounds pretty good: [VIDEO]
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